Atlanta council honors former SNCC members
Atlanta City Councilman Michael Julian Bond paid tribute to a group of women close to his heart at Monday's council meeting – former civil rights workers who have recently contributed to the newly-published civil rights history book “Hands on the Freedom Plow.”
The 11 Georgia honorees, all members of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) during the civil rights era, along with 41 other women, wrote about their individual experiences in the book during that turbulent moment in American history.
“Hands on the Freedom Plow” chronicles the beatings, arrests and violence the 52 women witnessed.
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Ernie Suggs is an enterprise reporter covering race and culture for the AJC since 1997. A 1990 graduate of N.C. Central University and a 2009 Harvard University Nieman Fellow, he is also the former vice president of the National Association of Black Journalists. His obsession with Prince, Spike Lee movies, Hamilton and the New York Yankees is odd.
